RTX 3080 **10GB VRAM ENOUGH?!**

[PurpleWave]

10 hours ago, Domrockt said:

In VR and SS, i hit 12gb with my Sold 2080ti with ease. I Hope my 3090 will arrive next week.

Exactly this, in VR with 400% SS on most games that are "cartoonish" artstyle, you easily blast over 10Gb

[makadee]

14 hours ago, MadPistol said:

So I was worried about VRAM utilization, but the more I play with my 3080, the less I am worried. 2 reasons.

 

1. DLSS and other AI-based upscaling techniques will reduce VRAM required to hit a certain output resolution.

2. GPUs, even the mighty 3080, tend to run out of rendering power long before they hit a VRAM limit.

For the 2nd point, you can run GTA V right up to the limit of VRAM, and the framerate will slow to sub-30. While Ray Tracing will increase GPU utilization, that can also be mitigated through DLSS and other AI-based rendering. I think that Nvidia is betting heavily that this will be the future, and if it is, we honestly have nothing to worry about.

What do you mean by sub-30? I ran GTA on my computer maxed out and didnt have lower than 30FPS. Is this what you mean or did I misunderstand ?

[makadee]

14 hours ago, Leisor said:

DLSS is only used in a few games, and doesnt reduce (if available) vram usage very much.

The RTX 3080 will most likely end up like the GTX 680, which had enough rendering power, but "died" due to its small Vram pool, where the HD 7970 have proven itself as the much better option due to its bigger vram.

 

The thing is, if Nvidia doesn't offer anything between 10 and 24 GB, and you know that AMD will offer similar/better performance with 16GB, I would definitly wait with my purchase.

I tested this in games and the VRAM allocation can drop 2-3GB sometimes when DLSS is activated. For example Control, or Metro Exodus

[MadPistol]

5 hours ago, makadee said:

What do you mean by sub-30? I ran GTA on my computer maxed out and didnt have lower than 30FPS. Is this what you mean or did I misunderstand ?

You have to max out the settings at 4K and set frame scaling to 7/4. If you do this, you will push the VRAM amount right to the 10GB limit of this card.

[tzudd]

Thanks to DLSS, that should make the 10gb not a problem for next generation games, because dlss upsamples 1080p to 4k without the need for extra memory.  Plus I expect this generation will hold its value store good as gold as the 1080ti has for 4 years. So you can always sell and upgrade later. See this "A.I. Expert: RTX 3080 Reviews "Don't Do It Justice".